2001 Players Championship Explained

2001 Players Championship
Dates:March 22–26, 2001
Location:Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Course:TPC Sawgrass,
Stadium Course
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Field:142 players, 75 after cut
Cut:147 (+3)
Purse:$6.0 million
Winners Share:$1.08 million
Champion: Tiger Woods
Score:274 (−14)
Map:USA#USA Florida
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:TPC Sawgrass
Coordinates:30.198°N -81.394°W
Previous:2000
Next:2002

The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 28th Players Championship.

Tournament summary

Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once, the Tiger Slam, as well as this Players, the unofficial "fifth major." He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013.

Through 2020, Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year (2001), and he was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year, joining Jack Nicklaus (1978) and Hal Sutton (1983); it expanded to four with Martin Kaymer in 2014.

Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back, in a tie for fifth place.

Venue

See main article: TPC at Sawgrass. This was the 20th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at .

Field

1. Winners of PGA Tour co-sponsored or approved tournaments, whose victories are considered official, since the 2000 Players Championship

2. Those players among the top 125 finishers on the 2000 Official Money List[3]

3. Winners of the Players Championship, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the last ten years (1990–1999)

4. Winners of the NEC World Series of Golf from 1990–1998

5. Winners of the Tour Championship in the last three years, beginning with the 1998 winner

6. Winners of official money World Golf Championship events in the last three years (1998–2000)

7. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, among the top 50 leaders from the Official World Golf Ranking through the Bay Hill Invitational

8. Any player(s), not otherwise eligible, who are among the top 10 money-winners from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational

9. To complete a field of 144 players, those players, not otherwise eligible, from the 2001 Official Money List below 10th position through the Bay Hill Invitational, in order of their positions on the money list

10. The Players Championship Committee may invite a player(s), not otherwise eligible, who is a current inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Such player(s) would be added to the list.)

Source:[4]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 22, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 66 −6
T2 67 −5
T5 68 −4
T8 69 −3
Source:[5]

Second round

Friday, March 23, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69-66=135 −9
2 66-70=136 −8
T3 67-70=137 −7
71-66=137
67-70=137
6 67-72=139 −5
7 68-72=140 −4
T8 69-72=141 −3
70-71=141
72-69=141
73-68=141
73-68=141
72-69=141
Source:[6]

Third round

Saturday, March 24, 2001

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 69-66-70=205 −11
T2 67-70-70=207 −9
72-69-66=207
4 67-70-71=208 −8
5 73-68-68=209 −7
T6 66-70-74=210 −6
68-72-70=210
T8 71-66-74=211 −5
72-71-68=211
10 71-72-69=212 −4
Source:[7]

Final round

Sunday, March 25, 2001
Monday, March 26, 2001

Champion
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1 Tiger Woods 72-69-66-67=274 −14 1,080,000
2 67-70-70-68=275 −13 648,000
3 73-68-68-67=276 −12 408,000
4 69-66-70-73=278 −10 288,000
T5 68-72-70-71=281 −7 228,000
Hal Sutton (c) 72-71-68-70=281
T7 66-70-74-72=282 −6 187,000
67-70-71-74=282
72-72-70-68=282
T10 73-73-67-70=283 −5 156,000
Nick Price (c) 70-74-71-68=283
[8]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par453444435454344534
Woods −10 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −11 −11 −12 −13 −13 −14 −14 −14 −14 −15 −15 −14
Singh −9 −10 −9 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −11 −11 −12 −12 −13 −10 −10 −12 −13 −13
Langer −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −9 −10 −11 −10 −11 −10 −11 −11 −12
Kelly −11 −12 −12 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −10
Mayfair −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −8 −8 −7
Sutton −4 −4 −4 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7
Azinger −6 −6 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −5 −6 −5 −6 −6 −6
Hoch −8 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −5 −6 −6 −6
Lickliter −2 −3 −4 −4 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
EagleBirdieBogeyDouble BogeyTriple Bogey+
Source:[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Tiger on the prowl . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . Associated Press . Ferguson . Doug . March 27, 2001. C2.
  2. News: Tiger storms to head of the pack . Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . Associated Press . Ferguson . Doug . March 26, 2001 . 2C .
  3. Web site: Official Money – 2000 . PGA Tour . 2023-04-06.
  4. Web site: 2001 PGA Tour Media Guide . PGA Tour . 339.
  5. News: Golf: Thursday's results . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . March 23, 2001 . B9 .
  6. News: Players Championship - Second round . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . Florida . March 24, 2001 . 3C .
  7. News: Golf: PGA Tour . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . March 25, 2001 . 6G .
  8. Web site: Past Results 1974 – present . PGA Tour . March 1, 2020 . September 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200901175049/https://www.theplayers.com/past-results.html . dead .
  9. News: The Players Championship . ESPN . October 3, 2018.

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